In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and the British Empire exchanged poppies, produced in its Indian colonies and transformed into opium, for Chinese tea. Inundated by the drugs, China was forced to open up its market, and the British consolidated their comm…
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DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie
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- Director
- Jérôme Scemla
- Released
- 2016-07-01
- Language
- English
- Country
- China
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